Once called the 'most hated man in France', Le Pen maintained that his ideas were simply 'ahead of their time' ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen ... birthday as a member of the European parliament – a post he retained until 2019. Jordan Bardella, president of the RN party, said Le Pen “always served France, defending ...

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen ... for helping seed “this anti-national spirit.” Le Pen lost his European Parliament seat in 2002 for a year for assaulting a Socialist politician during ...

though France’s two-round system of voting kept it out of parliament as other parties banded together to defeat the far right. Jean-Marie Le Pen made political history by reaching the second ...

Mr Le Pen's long political career was all about belligerence, anger, regret and scapegoats - but it would be wrong to write him off as merely an agitator.

Jean-Marie Le Pen was recently exempted from prosecution on health grounds in a high-profile trial that began in September, investigating his party's alleged embezzlement of European Parliament funds.

“Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead. Enlisted in the uniform of the French army in Indochina and Algeria, tribune of the people in the National Assembly and the European Parliament, he always served ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen ... force in French politics by winning 10 seats in the European Parliament, including one for Le Pen. In an interview in 1987, Le Pen referred to the Nazi gas chambers as ...

At just 28, he won election to the parliament ... elites and the European Union, and viscerally authoritarian in manner and rhetoric. Like a malignant Moses, Jean-Marie Le Pen died without ever ...

Father and daughter went on trial last year on charges they and other senior NR party figures embezzled European Parliament funds with a fake jobs scheme. Jean-Marie Le Pen did not have to attend ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right ... In another setback, Le Pen lost his European Parliament seat in 2002 for a year for assaulting a Socialist politician during a 1997 ...